Motivational Quotes

Success

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

- Fairless, Benjamin F.

Best Quotes about Success

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Rohn, Jim

Success is the sum of details.

Firestone, Harvey S.

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Schuller, Robert H.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Sweeney, Paul

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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Einstein, Albert

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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Granatelli, Andrew

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Hill, Napoleon

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The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.

Smith, May V.

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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Wilson, Earl

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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Fairless, Benjamin F.

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hill, Napoleon

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If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

Alderson, M. H.

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

Barack Obama

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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People fail forward to success.

Mary Kay Ash

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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

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Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...

Howe, Edgar Watson

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Watson, Thomas J.

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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Kane, Walter

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What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

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Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.